Works of Art (131)
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Bust of Marie de France, ca. 1381, Jean de Liège (Franco-Netherlandish, Île-de-France, Saint-Denis, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Chapel of Notre-Dame-la-Blanche, Marble, lead insets, traces of polychromy (41.100.132) |
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Head of Constans, ca. 337–340, Early Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire), Marble (67.107) |
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Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, late 4th–early 5th century, Early Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire), Marble (66.25) |
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Akroterion of the grave monument of Timotheos and Nikon, ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic, Marble (07.286.107) |
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Allegory of Earth, ca. 1750, Attributed to Jean-Pierre Defrance (French), Marble (64.93.1-4) |
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An Englishman, 1740, Pierre-Antoine Verschaffelt (English), Carrara marble, gray marble (pedestal) (1978.3) |
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Andrew Jackson, 1834–35; this carving, 1839, Hiram Powers (American), Marble (94.14) |
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The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial, 1889–93; this carving, 1926, Daniel Chester French (American), Marble (26.120) |
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Anthropoid sarcophagus, last quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical, Greco-Phoenician; From a tomb at Amathus, Marble (74.51.2452) |
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Asiatic garland sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan period, 200–225 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (70.1) |
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Autumn, 1745, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam le Jeune (French) and Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French), Paris, Marble (66.29.2) |
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The Babes in the Wood, ca. 1850; this carving, 1851, Thomas Crawford (American), Marble (94.9.4) |
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Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, ca. 1616–17, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Italian (Rome), Marble (1976.92) |
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Bird in Space, 1923, Constantin Brancusi (French, born Romania), Marble (1996.403.7ab) |
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Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry, 1851, Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (American), Marble (1996.74) |
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Bringing down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara, 1911, John Singer Sargent (American), Oil on canvas (17.97.1) |
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Bust of Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German), Marble on an ebony socle inlaid with marble panels (2002.468) |
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Bust of Napoleon III, 1873,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Marble (1974.297) |
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Bust of Voltaire (1694–1778), 1778, Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French; Paris, Marble (1972.61) |
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California, 1850–55; this carving, 1858, Hiram Powers (American), Marble (72.3) |
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Capital with Bust of the Archangel Michael, ca. 1250–1300, Byzantine; Made in Constantinople, possibly from the Monastery of the Virgin Peribleptos ("All-Seeing"), now the Sulumanastir, a mosque, Marble (1983.167) |
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Capital, 10th century, Spain, probably Madinat al-Zahra’, Carved marble (30.95.134) |
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576–1633), 1632, Giuliano Finelli (Italian), Marble (53.201) |
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Cippus (funerary altar) of Cominia Tyche, ca. 90–95 A.D.; Late Flavian, Roman, Marble (38.27) |
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Cleopatra, 1858; this carving, 1869, William Wetmore Story (American), Marble (88.5a-d) |
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Clytie, 1869–70; this carving, 1872, William Henry Rinehart (American), Marble (11.68.1) |
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Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723), ca. 1683–85, Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian), Italian (Florence), Marble (1993.332.1); Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici (1663–1713), ca. 1683–85, Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian), Italian (Florence), Marble (1993.332.2) |
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Cuxa Cloister, mid-12th century, French or Spanish; From the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa (modern France), Marble (25.120.398,.399,.452) |
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Dado panel, first half of 15th century; Mamluk, Egypt, Polychrome marble mosaic (1970.327.8) |
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Daphne, 1853; this carving, 1854, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American), Marble (1973.133) |
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Descent from the Cross, ca. 1550–60, School of Jean Goujon (French), Marble (29.56) |
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Disk with a herm of Dionysos in relief, Early Imperial, third quarter of 1st century A.D.,
Roman,
Marble, pigment (26.60.27) |
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Doorway, carved in the 1000s, assembled in 1100s or 1200s, Central Italian; Sangemini, from the abbey church of San Nicolò, Marble (47.100.45) |
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Double Capital, mid-12th century, France, Toulouse region, Languedoc (?), Marble (28.81) |
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Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known as Caligula, 37–42; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (14.37) |
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Endymion sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan, early 3rd century A.D.,
Roman, Marble (47.100.4) |
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Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime, probably modeled 1881, this marble executed 1906–7, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (17.120.184) |
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Eva Rohr, 1872, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Marble; 18 5/8 x 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (47.3 x 23.5 x 16.5 cm) (1990.317) |
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Farnese Table, Italian (Rome), Marble, alabaster, and semi-precious stones (58.57) |
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Fisher Boy, 1841–44; this carving, 1857, Hiram Powers (American), Marble (94.9.1) |
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Fragment from the Eleusinian Relief, ca. 27 B.C.–14 A.D.; Augustan, Fragments of a Roman copy set in a plaster cast of the original Greek relief of ca. 350–325 B.C., Marble (14.130.9) |
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Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, 500–550, Byzantine, Marble and glass (1999.99) |
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Fragment of a sarcophagus with a seated figure, ca. 250 A.D.,
Roman; Probably northern Asia Minor,
Marble (18.108) |
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Fragmentary head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet, probably Julio-Claudian, ca. 14–68 A.D.,
Roman; copy of a Greek work of the 2nd century B.C.,
Marble, pigment, gilding (1992.11.66) |
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Funerary altar, 14–68; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (25.78.29) |
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Genius of Mirth, 1842; this version, 1843, Thomas Crawford (American), Marble (97.13.1) |
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George Washington, 1795, Giuseppe Ceracchi (Italian), Made in Florence, Italy, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Marble (14.58.235) |
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Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C., Greek, Parian marble (27.45) |
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Grave stele of a youth and a little girl, ca. 530 B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Attic, Parian marble (11.185a-c,f,g) |
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Grave stele with a family group, ca. 360 B.C.; Classical, Greek, Attic, Pentelic marble (11.100.2) |
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The Hand of God, modeled ca. 1896, this marble executed ca. 1907, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (08.210) |
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Head from the figure of a woman, ca. 2700–2500 B.C.; Early Cycladic I–II,
Cycladic; Keros-Syros culture,
Marble (64.246) |
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Head of a bearded man, Imperial, 2nd century A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (1993.342) |
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Head of a helmeted Roman soldier, ca. 50–75; Flavian, Roman, Marble (25.78.62) |
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Head of a Ptolemaic queen, Hellenistic, ca. 270–250 B.C.,
Greek,
Marble (2002.66) |
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Head of Athena, Hellenistic, late 3rd–2nd century B.C.,
Greek,
Marble (1996.178) |
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Head of Epikouros, Imperial, 2nd century A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (11.90) |
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Head of herm, 1st or 2nd century A.D.; Imperial Roman, Copy of a Greek work of the late 5th century B.C., Marble (03.12.4) |
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Hekateion, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble (1987.11.2) |
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Hiawatha, 1871–72; carved 1874, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Marble (2001.641) |
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The Hope Dionysos, late 1st century A.D., with 18th-century restoration by Vincenzo Pacetti; Imperial, Roman, Marble (1990.247)
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Indian Girl, or The Dawn of Christianity, 1853–56; this carving, 1855–56, Erastus Dow Palmer (American), Marble (94.9.2) |
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Ionic capital, torus (foliated base), and parts of a fluted column shaft from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, 4th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Marble (26.59.1) |
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John Barnard, 1744, John Michael Rysbrack (Flemish), English, Marble (1976.330) |
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Kalyx krater with reliefs of maidens and dancing maenads, 1st century A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (23.184) |
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Kouros, 1944–45, Isamu Noguchi (American), Marble (53.87a-i) |
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La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), 1845,
Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian),
Marble (03.11a–d) |
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Linga with one face (Ekamukhalinga), Shahi period, 9th century, Afghanistan, Marble (1980.415) |
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Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment, 525–500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Parian marble (42.11.35) |
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Louise Adele Gould, 1904, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Marble (32.62.1) |
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Madame X, ca. 1907, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (11.173.6) |
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Madonna and Child with Angels, Relief, ca. 1455–60, Antonio Rossellino (Italian, Florentine), Made in Florence, Italy, Marble, gilding on halo and dress (14.40.675) |
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Mantel clock, ca. 1780–90,
French (Paris),
Gilt bronze, enamel, and marble (17.190.2126)
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Mask, 3rd–7th century, Mexico; Teotihuacan, Onyx marble (1978.412.198) |
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Monkey Vessel, 10th–13th century, Mexico; Mixtec, Onyx marble, pyrite, shell (1979.206.1156) |
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Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial, 1906–8; this carving, 1912–15, Daniel Chester French (American), Marble (15.75) |
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Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith), 1884; this carving, by 1888, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Marble (1976.388) |
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Narbonne Arch, 12th century, French, Marble (22.58.1) |
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Nessus Abducting Deianira, modeled in 1814,
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish),
Marble (2004.174) |
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Panel with a Griffin, 1250–1300, Byzantine; Possibly from Greece or the Balkans, Marble (2000.81) |
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Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco, 1506–15 Spanish (41.190.482) |
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1804–6, Antonio Canova (Italian), Marble (67.110.1) |
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Philippe VI, Jeanne de Bourgogne, and Jean de France in Prayer, ca. 1340–1350, French, Marble (17.190.387,388,392) |
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Pillar with Capital, 800s, South Italian, Marble (18.70.21) |
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Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, ca. 1170–1180, Italian; Made in Tuscany, White Carrara marble, grayish marble (62.189) |
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Portrait bust of a bearded man, ca. 150–75 A.D.; Antonine, Roman, Marble (1998.209) |
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Portrait bust of a man, 1st century B.C.; Republican, Roman, Marble (12.233) |
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Portrait bust of a woman, 200–230 A.D.; Severan, Roman, Marble (18.145.39) |
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Portrait head of an elderly woman, Late Republican or Early Imperial, Augustan, ca. 40–20 B.C.,
Roman,
Marble, pigment (2000.38)
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Portrait head of the Emperor Augustus, ca. 14–37; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (07.286.115) |
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Portrait head of the emperor Constantine I, ca. 324–337; Constantinian; Late Antique period, Roman, Marble (26.229) |
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Portrait head of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla), ca. 217–230; Late Severan, Roman, Marble (40.11.1a) |
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Portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius, 138–161; Antonine, Roman, Marble (33.11.3) |
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Recumbent mouflon, Mature Harappan period, ca. 2600–1900 B.C., Indus Valley, Marble (1978.58) |
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Relief of a dancing maenad, ca. 27 B.C.–14 A.D.; Augustan, Roman copy of a Greek relief attributed to Kallimachos, ca. 425–400 B.C., Pentelic marble (35.11.3) |
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Relief portrait of the emperor Lucius Verus, ca. 166–170; Antonine, Roman, Marble (13.227.1) |
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Relief with an archaistic Hermes, 1st century A.D., Roman, Marble (1991.11.8) |
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Relief with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors, ca. 1340, Giovanni di Balduccio (Italian, Tuscan, Bolognese, Milanese), Marble (2001.221) |
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Sarcophagus lid (kline), Mid-Imperial, Severan, 220 A.D.,
Roman, Marble (1993.11.1) |
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Sarcophagus with a Greek physician, early 300s,
Roman; Ostia, Italy, Marble (48.76.1)
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Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ, early 300s (with modern restoration), Roman, Marble (1991.366) |
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Seated Jain Tirthankara, Solanki period, ca. first half 11th century, India, Gujarat or Rajasthan, White marble (1992.131) |
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Section of a pilaster with acanthus scrolls, first half of 1st century A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (10.210.28) |
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Spouted bowl, ca. 2700–2200 B.C.; Early Cycladic II,
Cycladic; Keros-Syros culture,
Marble (2001.766) |
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Standing female figure, ca. 2600–2400 B.C.; Early Cycladic II; late Spedos type, Attributed to the Bastis Master, Cycladic, Marble (68.148) |
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Statue of a draped seated man, Republican or Early Imperial, 1st century B.C.,
Roman,
Marble (09.221.4) |
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Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Attic, Naxian marble (32.11.1) |
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Statue of a member of the imperial family shown in heroic semi-nudity, Early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.–68 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble, pigment, gilding (2003.407.9) |
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Statue of a togatus, ca. 14–9 B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Marble (04.15) |
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Statue of a wounded Amazon, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman copy of a Greek bronze original, ca. 450–425 B.C., Marble (32.11.4) |
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Statue of a wounded warrior, ca. 138–181 A.D.; Antonine; copy of a Greek bronze statue of ca. 460–450 B.C., Roman, Marble (25.116) |
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Statue of a young woman and a girl from a grave monument, ca. 320 B.C., Greek, Attic, Marble (44.11.2,.3) |
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Statue of an old market woman, Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st century A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (09.39) |
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Statue of Aphrodite, 1st or 2nd century A.D.,
Roman copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.,
Marble (52.11.5) |
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Statue of Aphrodite, 2nd century B.C.; Late Hellenistic,
Greek,
Marble (2006.509)
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Statue of Diadoumenos, ca. 69–96 A.D.; Flavian; copy of a Greek original, ca. 430 B.C., Roman, Marble (Pentelic) (25.78.56) |
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Statue of Eirene (personification of peace), ca. 14–68 A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman copy of a Greek original by Kephisodotos, 375/374–360/359 B.C., Marble (06.311) |
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Statue of Herakles seated on a rock, Imperial, 1st or 2nd century A.D.,
Roman; adaptation of a Greek statue of the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.,
Marble (11.55) |
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Statuette of a seated harp player, ca. 2800–2700 B.C.; late Early Cycladic I–Early Cycladic II, Cycladic, Marble (47.100.1) music |
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Steatopygous female figure, ca. 4500–4000 B.C.; Neolithic, Cycladic; Greece, Cyclades, Marble (1972.118.104) |
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Strigilated sarcophagus, Late Severan, 220 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (2005.258) |
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Strigilated vase with snake handles and lid, second half of 2nd century A.D.; Antonine,
Roman,
Marble (2007.31a,b) |
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Table Top, 400–600, Byzantine; Said to be from Rome, Italy, Marble (47.100.50) |
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Terms: Figures of Flora and Priapus, 1616 Pietro Bernini (Italian), Originally in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome, Marble |
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Torso of a centaur, Imperial, 1st century A.D.,
Roman; copy of a Greek statue of the 2nd century B.C.,
Rosso antico marble (09.221.6) |
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Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons Sarcophagus, ca. 260–270,
Roman,
Phrygian marble (55.11.5) |
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Two Columns, 400–600, French; Toulouse, from the Church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade, Marble (21.172.1-2) |
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Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French),
Saint-Béat marble (67.250) |
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Venezia, ca. 1865–66, Larkin Goldsmith Mead (American), Marble (1999.18) |
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The White Captive, 1857–58; this carving, 1858–59, Erastus Dow Palmer (American), Marble (94.9.3) |
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Young Warrior, early 16th century,
Workshop of Tullio Lombardo (Italian, Venetian),
White marble (32.100.155) |
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Thematic Essays (28)
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